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  4. Posted

    11th set of tapes is on the way. In the meantime, please look at new releases in Retronics:

     

    1. 07 Come In! - nice game, translated from Polish "07 Zgłoś Się!" with poster and model of police car from communist era (game takes place at that time)

    2. Laura - re-release of famous title, but now in Polish and English language (selectable at start) plus additional 32 new levels. Poster included.

    3. New Adventures of Laura - new adventures of above, new levels from contest, made by users. Selected 16 winning levels. Poster included.

    4. LiteRally - motorbike race, many levels, nice graphics - game occupies 512kB of cartridge! Motorbike model included!

     

    If you are interested in any of them, please send me an e-mail or PM. They are now being manufactured.

     

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  5. Posted

    12 hours ago, Kyle22 said:

    When I see a multi-chip tracker, I will order one (or two).

     

    I am awaiting that day, but nobody is going to write it AFAIK. If this will not happen, PokeyMAX project will be abandoned as a nice hardware without software.... :(

    95% of sales is Stereo (Auto, Covox). 3% is Quad (Auto, Covox), 2% is for Quad Pokey+SID or +PSG

    I am ready to manufacture all-in-one PokeyMAX v3 with many nice additions, like AUDIO IN from SIO monitoring etc. But I will not risk if there is no software. So far only some players use SID or PSG features.

    Gravity Worms game will have SID music.

    GW box front render.png

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  7. Posted · Edited by Duddie

    @Mr Robot, yes, but it is not produced yet. Everything depends on demand. Now we have Quad plus 2xPSG plus Covox (4 channels) or Quad plus 2xSID. We have some players able to play mods for SID or PSG. But nobody made any music for Quad pokey or Pokey plus SID/PSG. No demos or games. Therefore demand is near zero. 

    Production of v3 PokeyMAX having all chips on board (plus maybe Paula?) is expensive. I do not want to freeze money, we must wait for some soft productions increasing demand...

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  9. Posted

    Guys, if you have sent payment, you can see on Paypal that it arrived to my account.... Please forgive me, but I am not able to reply to everybody via email - too many orders and I am focusing now on delivering product ASAP. Only, if you have ordered your copy, but haven't received payment details - please contact me via PM. Especially hotmail.com and live.com mails are problematic recently.

  20. Posted · Edited by Duddie

    Guys, firmware update is quite complicated process. First, you need to register to Intel-Altera website, download a few gigabytes of Quartus IDE, choosing parts of it to be downloaded and installed (chip libraries etc.). Then you need to install it, including USB Blaster drivers - it cannot be done automatically - device is not detected by Windows, you have to do this manually. If you pass this time-consuming process, next obstacle will show - JTAG connector on PokeyMAX is non-standard: USB Blaster has 10 pins connector, while PokeyMAX has 6 pins. You need a special adapter, which cannot be purchased anywhere. You need to make it by yourself. Then, you need to select a proper firmware version, as we have a lot of them - for now it is more than 15 different versions, due to variety of PokeyMAXes available on the market. Of course we will have more soon, because PokeyMAX is still being developed with new features. 

    After gaining of some experience in supporting customers, I can say that I seriously doubt that you can update firmware by yourself. People have difficulties even with simple installation process and many of them did it wrong - despite of very few schematics versions in the installation manual, some users choose a wrong one, some made mistakes in wiring.

    Don't get me wrong, we are working hard with Mark on providing you a safe way of updating firmware. We do not want to generate problems four users and ourselves - many bricked devices would appear and of course users will ship them for replacement under warranty. This would generate loss and we would be forced to close production of this chip. Due to its complexity and very modern parts usage, it is expensive to manufacture it.

    For now, I strongly suggest to ship your devices back to me for update. In the future it is possible that we will offer a special flashing tool which allows FW update on Atari, without USB Blaster.

    I hope you understand my concerns.

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  21. Posted

    @freetz, please notice the difference in pin thickness. I said only what was diagnosed at the end in some cases, it is only a suggestion for you and the others. If you think that chip is bad, please send it back to me, I will replace it (or check).

  22. Posted

    Freetz, my experience (gained when supporting other users) says that pokey socket may be bad, or soldering to PCB may be unstable. None of PokeyMAX chips were faulty so far, all problems were coming from other hardware or software issues. Very frequent mistake is that users connect wires wrong. Firmware update will not help in your case. 

    Of course I cannot exclude that device can be faulty, and if you like, I can check and replace it.

  23. Posted

    8 hours ago, Mathy said:

    Hello Jerzy

     

     

    Why call it Quad SID when there are only two SIDs in there?  And four PoKeys.

     

    Sincerely

     

    Mathy

     

    Mathy, because all bigger versions have 4 Pokeys (that's why Quad). SID is only an extra feature. But of course if there is a demand, I am sure that foft can put as many SIDs as you want. Of course bigger chip will be needed and price will be much higher.

    For now main problem is a lack of software (demos, games, trackers) for using these extra features. Only very few players exist, they allow you to play SID or YM modules. I hope that people will start using extra features of PokeyMAX for making demos, games, software.

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  24. Posted

    10 hours ago, CharlieChaplin said:

    Hmmm,

     

    how about Paula and Jerry...? Or Amy ?

     

    (runs and hides)

     

    Paula is very similar to covox - 4 channels of 8-bit samples. Of course bigger chip can be used and DMA implemented, however, I think that Atari resources are too small for this. Amy? Why not. What is Jerry?

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  25. Posted

    Because some of you can't wait for SID and YM2149 (AY3-8912) functionality in PokeyMAX, we have decided to offer you PokeyMAX in version 2 like below:

     

    1. Quad SID (4x Pokey, 2xSID)

    2. Quad Covox PSG (4x Pokey, 2x YM2149/AY, Covox)

     

    Limited quantity available. More, in v3 will be available probably in August or September.

     

    If you are curious how does SID or PSG (YM/AY) sounds in PokeyMAX, please look here:

    https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiIXTNbzgkm2aX_1PnkQJCU6kXA?e=lvlwS8

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